GREEN TRAVEL HUB HIRE COORDINATOR Application Pack Huntly & District Development Trust
[email protected] www.huntlydevelopmenttrust.org “Working with others to build a resilient, inclusive, enterprising community capable of dealing with ongoing change.” Contents 1) Introduction 2) Huntly & District Development Trust 3) The Role 4) Application Process 5) HDDT’s 10 Year Timeline Page 2 of 6 1) Introduction Huntly and District Development Trust (HDDT) is a community-owned organisation working with others to improve the quality of life in our local community. Amongst its many goals, HDDT is committed to helping our community be as active and healthy as possible, as well as reducing the impact of our carbon emissions. The Huntly Green Travel Hub is a key outlet for helping achieve these goals, through our community car share and e-bike hire scheme. There are three vehicles for use in our car club and 14 (soon to be 24) electric bikes for hire. We are also focusing on several other travel related projects, including creating safe routes to school, electric vehicle charging points and path network development. For the last two years, HDDT’s work in this area has been supported by Paths for All’s Smarter Choices, Smarter Places (SCSP) Open Fund. The fund aims to encourage people to change their behaviour to walk or cycle as part of their everyday short journeys. In that time, we have seen our car club and e-bike usage rise significantly. With government targets to stop production of all new petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030, coupled with the Scottish Government announcement of £500 million to active travel projects over the next 5 years, this is a very exciting and rapidly growing sector.